Gov. Jerry Brown called on California voters to approve $6.9 billion in temporary new taxes, including a surcharge on big earners.

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Jerry Brown Asks California Voters to Pay $6.9 Billion in New Taxes

SACRAMENTO In 1967, five years after California became the most populous state, novelist Wallace Stegner said that California — energetic, innovative, hedonistic — was America, “only more so.” Today, this state’s budget crisis is like the nation’s, only more so. Bob Dutton is an island of calm in the eye of the storm — which should agitate Gov. Jerry Brown. Dutton came to California from Nebraska at age 19 in 1969 and now is the leader of Republicans in the state Senate. He contentedly says that his caucus is “almost like a Chamber of Commerce board of directors.” Its members are mostly from small businesses, as he is. Because they are term-limited, they cannot make a career here, so they might as well follow their small — well, smaller — government inclinations. Read full article > >

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Golden State blues

If Gov. Jerry Brown gets support for his spending cuts, he will still have to ask voters to approve $12 billion in taxes.

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California’s Tax Aversion Complicates Budget Math

As Sacramento prepares to inaugurate governor-elect Jerry Brown next month, the main focus has been on the state’s looming budget deficit and how the legislature and Brown plan to bridge that gap. For years now, Californians have been told that we must choose between cutting public services and public service employees, or budget Armageddon. read more

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California Shows Corporate Subsidies Impoverish Us All

Aides say Gov. Jerry Brown will propose shifting back to local governments many programs the state took over in the 1970s.

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Tax Cuts From ’70s Confront Brown Again in California

Jerry Brown is sworn in as the new governor of the US state of California, taking over from the departing Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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New California governor sworn in

Jerry Brown promised to lead California out of one of the toughest budget crises of its history.

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In California, Governor Brown Redux

Jerry Brown prepares for his inauguration as the new governor of the US state of California, taking over from outgoing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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California to swear in governor

An incredibly tight race in Florida, but in California that gap between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman widens.

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FiveThirtyEight: Gov. Forecast Update

Is $140 million and counting worth the governor’s mansion? That’s a question many are asking about California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who’s spent that figure so far-outspending her opponent, Jerry Brown, by a factor of 10 to 1….

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Can Whitman Buy Her Way to Governor?

Talk about burying the hatchet. When former President Bill Clinton turned out to rally for California Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown on Friday night, the former rivals hugged and made up.

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Clinton stumps for former foe in Calif.

Almost two decades after they tussled for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown campaigned together on Friday.

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The Caucus: Bill Clinton Campaigns for Jerry Brown

The California gubernatorial debate got ugly Tuesday night, as Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman traded personal barbs in a bid to gain an edge in the very close race. Even the typically tame audience got rowdy. Brown, who has a small lead in the polls, got…

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California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown announced he’s been endorsed by the National Organization for Women, less than a day after a tape of a phone call featured a staffer-or perhaps Brown himself-referring to opponent Meg Whitman as a “whore.”…

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Brown Gets NOW Endorsement

A recording of an aide to Jerry Brown calling his opponent in the California governor’s race a “whore” has reminded many of a dichotomy in Mr. Brown’s long career.

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Campaign Gaffes Highlight 2 Jerry Browns: Poetic and Profane